Another Spanish-Moorish casket, also at South Kensington, and dating from the eleventh century, is described by Maskell as "richly carved in deep relief with foliage and animals in scrolls interlacing one another, and forming larger and smaller circles. The top and each side is a single plaque of ivory; the sloping lid at the front and back has two panels. On the two are two animals, like doves; a large bird stands at the back of each, attacking it with his beak. The sloping sides have, in the large circles, men on horseback, and animals fighting. The intermediate spaces are completely filled with foliage, and smaller beasts. Similar subjects are repeated in the circles on the panels forming the lower sides of the casket, and among them are two groups of men and women sitting; one blowing a horn, another playing on a guitar, another holding a cup in one hand and a flower in the other." Riaño adds: "There is no inscription on this casket, but in one of the medallions on the lid there is a bust, which is carried on the back of a horse, and which is probably a representation of the prince for whom the casket was made." [Illustration: XLI (_a_) IVORY CRUCIFIX (_11th Century. Back view. Madrid Museum_)] The _Letter of Testament_ setting forth the various objects bequeathed by Ferdinand the First and his consort Sancha to the church of Saint John the Baptist (or of Saint Isidore) at León, mentions an ivory cross (which will be noticed presently), an ivory box fitted with gold, and two ivory boxes fitted with silver, one of them containing three other silver boxes, similarly decorated. One of these boxes is described by Ambrosio de Morales, and from his words we conclude it to be the one which was adorned with gold, "of which metal," he wrote in 1572, "it has even more than of ivory," adding that it measured more than half a yard in length, and enshrined the body of Saint Vincent of Avila. He also tells us that it bore the following inscription, carved upon a golden frieze:-- ARCULA SANCTORUM MICAT HAEC SUB HONORE DUORUM BAPTISTAE SANCTI JOHANNIS SIVE PELAGII CEU REX FERNANDUS, REGINAQUE SANTIA, FIERI JUSSIT. ERA MILLENA SEPTENA SEU NONAGENA.[59] [59] A.D. 1059. This _arca_ has been much mutilated, and stripped of all the precious metal. Morales' description is therefore of especial value, as are the ivory tablets (eleventh century), carved with Christian themes, which yet remain upon the body of the box. [Illustration: XLII BYZANTINE CRUCIFIX]